George Julius

Pioneer Australian technologist​Back to People indexPossibly the first Australasian adventure into computing devices wasby the English born George Julius (1873-1947) who invented theAutomatic Totaliser - a complex electro-mechanical calculator.

Julius electro-mechanical adder

Doron Swade wrote:

The Julius totalisator with its automatic odds machine is theearliest on-line, real-time, data processing and computation systemthat the curators at the Science Museum have identified so far.The subject is excellently covered by Brian Conlon.

​Tote Systems - built inAustralia - sold around the world. This is Randwick in 1917.